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Channel 4 in the U.K. and Brightcove are announcing a partnership today where Brightcove will serve Channel 4’s promotional video clips. The first Channel 4 site to launch video content with Brightcove is its new online promotional destination "TV Clips," featuring clips from current TV programmes, an archive of the best moments from Channel 4’s 25 years of broadcasting, and a preview of new programming coming to Channel 4.

Brightcove chairman and chief executive officer, Jeremy Allaire, said: "Channel 4 is an industry leader with an incredible depth of innovative and award-winning programming. We are thrilled that Brightcove has been chosen to help expand the reach of Channel 4 content on the Web, driving viewership and fuelling the growth of online communities around some of its most popular shows."

Channel 4 has ongoing plans to launch further broadband video channels with the Brightcove Internet TV platform later this year.

This news comes during the same week as the announcement that BBC, ITV and Channel 4 will launch a combined on-demand video service. And earlier this week, Brightcove closed their Brightcove.tv service.

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NY-based Buddy Media, maker of several Facebook applications, has announced their acquisition of the Crushes Facebook application. Crushes is a dating application exclusively on Facebook. They claim more than a million installs of Crushes and over 30,000 users per day. Terms of the deal have not been released.

Buddy Media will integrate their Matches dating app with Crushes. Buddy Media also makes the AceBucks Facebook application which we reviewed last month after their presentation at the Social Networking meetup. Since AceBucks is a currency play and Crushes is a dating play - will we see the first online escort service on Facebook?

Howard Lindzon says that Buddy Media is, "cornering the Facebook dating market and currency market."

When I see these acquisitions I always wonder - is it about the Facebook app - or about getting the developer? In this case, Buddy Media picked up both and developer Patrick Stokes will join the team in their NYC office.

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